Improvement in shoe-fasteners



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' Patented Nov.3,1874.

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GEORGE L. ROBINSON, OF WATERBUBY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,500, dated November. 3, 1874; applicationfiled September 5, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. ROBINSON,

I of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven sentations of front views of my shoe-fastener.

Figs; 3 and 4 are rear views. tail view of the same.

This invention has relation to fastenings for shoes; and it consists in two rows of hooks connected together by a piece of elastic cloth, each row being formed of a single piece of wire bent so as to leave a long loop for connecting the hooks to the said cloth, and the intermediate hooks being held firmly by looping a portion of the wire around their necks, as will be fully understood from the following description.

In the annexed drawings, A A A designate a row of hooks; B B, connecting portions of wire; and C C, oblong loops. These parts,

Fig.5 is a detogether with a loop, D, are formed of asingle piece of wire bent into the shape shown in Figs. 1 and 2 by hand, or by machinery suitably adapted to the purpose. The loop D is bent around .the neck of the middle hook A for the purpose of stifl'ening the connectingwires B B and giving the proper strength to the fastening. The oblong loops C C afford means for attaching a strip of elastic cloth, F, which connects together the two rows of hooks, and allows elasticity to the fastening when on the foot. I

The cloth F may be sewed to the fastenings, or it may be secured to them by metal clasps E, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Instead of hooks, loops a may be made, as shown in. Figs. 3 and 4, which loops will be used with shoes having buttons on them.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isr The shoe-fastening consisting of the elastic strip F and the rows of hooks or eyes, each row being formed of a single'piece of wire bent so as to leave a long loop for securing to said strip, and so as to pass over and brace the intermediate hooks or eyes, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEO. L. ROBINSON.

Witnesses: A. F. ABBOTT,

EDWARD H. BLAKESLEE. 

